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Don't think so. 90% of office jobs in service economy are still basically about entering numbers into Excel spreadsheets and making documents, powerpoint presen

Don't think so. 90% of office jobs in service economy are still basically about entering numbers into Excel spreadsheets and making documents, powerpoint presentations etc. I just don't see any way to make spreadsheet application like Excel work on a touchscreen at an acceptable level for generic office employees. Furthermore, I am going to make a crazy prediction. I think we will see a substantial revival of PCs in the coming decade as people start finding out there are some things mobile phones or tables will just never be able to do. Only thing needed is an open source operating system with good UI because Windows is obviously not a way forward.

BerislavLopac 8y ago
"Entering numbers into Excel spreadsheets" is being replaced by automated processes as we speak.
- richardknop 8y ago
  So what will all those people do? It would be politically impossible to allow automation to replace all these jobs. I think these jobs will be kept around just to make the electorate happy.
  - SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
    I suppose that view makes sense if you conveniently ignore everything that's happened since the industrial revolution.
- rchaud 8y ago
  Until megacorps like Microsoft, Adobe, Salesforce etc stop offering their bread-and-butter products on a fee per user per month basis, the whole automation thing is still going to need people to make it happen.
freeone3000 8y ago
Android and iOS have keyboard HID support baked in. Pair your keyboard to a tablet, boom, you have a data entry terminal that can run Excel just fine, and has a greatly restricted attack and security surface. This is essentially the model of Chromebooks, but there's nothing particularly magical about Chromebooks over any other Android tablet. I don't think Windows or Linux are going to be the OS of choice for most people in the future, regardless of what physical form the computers take.

BerislavLopac 8y ago

"Entering numbers into Excel spreadsheets" is being replaced by automated processes as we speak.

richardknop 8y ago
So what will all those people do? It would be politically impossible to allow automation to replace all these jobs. I think these jobs will be kept around just to make the electorate happy.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
  I suppose that view makes sense if you conveniently ignore everything that's happened since the industrial revolution.
rchaud 8y ago
Until megacorps like Microsoft, Adobe, Salesforce etc stop offering their bread-and-butter products on a fee per user per month basis, the whole automation thing is still going to need people to make it happen.

freeone3000 8y ago

Android and iOS have keyboard HID support baked in. Pair your keyboard to a tablet, boom, you have a data entry terminal that can run Excel just fine, and has a greatly restricted attack and security surface. This is essentially the model of Chromebooks, but there's nothing particularly magical about Chromebooks over any other Android tablet. I don't think Windows or Linux are going to be the OS of choice for most people in the future, regardless of what physical form the computers take.